
Moritz Pischel (he/him)
Experimental Psychology & Personality Lab
Fortstr. 7
76829 Landau
Primary Advisor: Prof. Benjamin Hilbig, PhD (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau)
Additional Supervisors: Tanja Lischetzke, Thorsten Meiser
Dissertation Proposal: Darkness the World over: Aversive Personality across Cultures
Publications
Pfeifer, E., Wulf, H., Metz, K., Wüster, A., Pischel, M., & Wittmann, M. (2024). Correlations between meaning in life and nature connectedness: German-language validation of two topic-related measures and practical implications. Spiritual Care, 13(3), 242–256. https://doi.org/10.1515/spircare-2024-0011
Pischel, M., Wüster, A. L., Metz, K., Wulf, H., Lahmann, C., & Pfeifer, E. (2025). They talk the talk and walk the walk: Psychotherapists' experience of psychotherapy while walking in nature. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research 25(3), e70035. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/capr.70035
Talks
Pischel, M., & Hilbig, B. E. (2024, October 24–25). Dark factor of personality and religious extremism [Talk]. Joint Meeting of the Cognition, Behavior & Evolution Network and Human behavior from an evolutionary perspective (Menschliches Verhalten aus evolutionärer Perspektive, MVE), Maastricht, Netherlands.
Pischel, M., & Hilbig, B. E. (2024, November 29–30). Cross-cultural measurement invariance of aversive personality and its implications for political attitudes [Talk]. SMiP Fall Retreat, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
Posters
Pischel, M., & Hilbig, B. E. (2025, July 08–11). Measurement heterogeneity in the relationship between nationalism and patriotism and aversive personality [Poster]. Second Regional Cultural Differences Conference, Vancouver, Canada. https://osf.io/hbqp7/
Pischel, M., & Hilbig, B. E. (2025, May 15–16). Measurement invariance in personality psychology: The dark factor of personality in French [Poster]. Freiburg Open Science, Freiburg, Germany.
Pischel, M., & Hilbig, B. E. (2024, September 16–19). The structure and personality basis of extremism [Poster]. 53rd Biennial Conference of the German Psychological Society, Vienna, Austria.